Died in a car crash after leaving a Halloween party at the home of Norma Stuart, ex-wife of
Keefe Brasselle. His body was found in his wrecked sports car by a Los Angeles police officer nearly three weeks later, on November 19, at the bottom of the ravine in Benedict Canyon. He was nearly halfway out of the driver's side window, having been crushed between the steering post and the driver's side door. According to his father, he idolized
James Dean and like Dean, loved to drive his sports car at high speeds. He was driving a Porsche Spyder when he was killed, the same model in which Dean died.
